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Emanuel Oreste Pfoh

Bio: Emanuel Oreste Pfoh is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 9 citations.

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29 Dec 2016-Páginas
Abstract: El presente articulo aborda tematicas centrales acerca de la composicion cultural e historica del moderno conflicto palestino-israeli, en particular la relevancia del pasado mas antiguo de la region de Palestina para distintos actores a traves del tiempo. Cuestiones relativas a la identidad cultural de Occidente en relacion con Palestina, a la arqueologia biblica, a la aparicion del sionismo como movimiento nacionalista, al rol de la arqueologia en el Estado de Israel y al desarrollo de una arqueologia palestina de la region son tratados, si bien sumariamente, en su interrelacion para comprender las variadas raices del conflicto desde una perspectiva historica.

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TL;DR: In this paper, Rashid Khalidi argues that a Palestinian national identity developed prior to the British mandate and also asserts that the origins of that identity are not reducible to the conflict with Zionism as recent works may suggest.
Abstract: PALESTINE AND PALESTINIANS Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness, by Rashid Khalidi. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xvi + 209 pages. Notes to p. 265. Bibl. to p. 285. Index to p. 309. $29.50. Reviewed by Niall O Murchu This book argues, using original research and secondary sources, that a Palestinian national identity developed prior to the British mandate. It also asserts that the origins of that identity are not reducible to the conflict with Zionism as recent works may suggest.' As outlined below, the principal thesis is sustained well, but requires more attention to the history of Ottoman state building. Data presented from the Arabic press, however, only emphasize the centrality of Zionism to the Palestinian narrative. The context for the initial development of modem notions of citizenship and national identity is a profound shift in the career paths of the Jerusalem elite occasioned by the Tanzimat, the Ottoman reforms of the mid-19th century. Those families which traditionally relied on their knowledge of Islamic law and reputation as judges found their monopoly on legal services threatened by the expansion of a more centrally controlled legal system. The Tanzimat was a qualitative shift in the co-optive bargain between Istanbul and the provinces-the success of the notables depended increasingly on positions they attained as Ottoman civil servants. The empire's need for a modern administrative and legal cadre also prompted the expansion of the educational system. In turn, the growth of education and administration helped to create a reading public for the Arabic press which blossomed following the Ottoman Revolution (1908). Such developments provided the foundations for a new conception of identity as nationality. The book's question is: Why did the primary locus of political identity come to be Palestinian, and not Ottoman or Arab? In answering, the author ingeniously traces the careers of two Jerusalem intellectuals whose qualifications took them to the heart of the Ottoman empire. The biographies of Yusuf Diya' al-Khalidi and Ruhi al-Khalidi are developed using materials catalogued during the restoration of the Khalidi Library in Jerusalem. Notably, both men wound up at odds with the Ottoman imperial authorities. Yusuf Diya' was effectively detained in Istanbul by Sultan `Abd al-Hamid II. Ruhi's opposition to Zionism was rebuffed by his colleagues in the Ottoman parliament in Istanbul. …

260 citations

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01 Oct 2008-Shofar
TL;DR: Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation, by Eyal Weizman London: Verso, 2007 318 pp $3495 Hollow Land as discussed by the authors examines how different forms of Israeli rule over the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 "inscribed themselves in space" to accomplish this purpose.
Abstract: Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation, by Eyal Weizman London: Verso, 2007 318 pp $3495 Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation examines how "the different forms of Israeli rule" over the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 "inscribed themselves in space" (p 5) To accomplish this purpose, Eyal Weizman uses the term architecture in two ways In its first meaning, he describes in detail the planning, construction, physical, and political attributes of several of the built structures of the occupation and the roles of the Israeli architects who designed them The structures analyzed include the Jewish Quarter of the old city of Jerusalem, the settlements, the separation barrier, the checkpoint at Qalandia, the border crossing at the Allenby Bridge, and the Rafah Terminal The separation barrier is arguably Israel's most egregious violation of international law in the course of over forty years of occupation, since an International Court of Justice ruling determined that it is illegal Yet Israeli architects protested against being excluded from participating in the design process Weizman also employs architecture "as a conceptual way of understanding political issues as constructed realities" (p 6) Each of the chapters examines a structure or related set of structures and the way they enforce Israel's domination of the Palestinians through the control of physical space The chapters are self-contained essays; most of them contain fascinating detail that is little known outside Israel Among the best is the chapter on Israel's targeted assassinations in the Gaza Strip beginning in 2003 It is an incisive, albeit depressing, discussion of the politics and technology of what Weizman terms "the airborne occupation" and the extension of the occupation along a vertical axis Underscoring the relevance of this issue to current developments beyond Israel/Palestine, Weizman traces the use of aerial bombardment of rebellious "natives" to the tenure of Winston Churchill as Britain's Minister of War and Air in the 1920s Churchill enthusiastically promoted "aerially enforced colonization" in Somaliland and Iraq The structure of Hollow Land does not permit Weizman to offer a comprehensive history of the occupation, and he acknowledges that this is not his objective Surprisingly, there is still no fully satisfactory narrative of this kind Gershom Gorenberg's, The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 (New York: Times Books, 2006), while based on good historical research on the first decade of the settlement project, is ultimately flawed and problematic (for my review see "When Doves Cry," The Nation, April 17, 2006) Weizman, although he is a more consistent critic of the Israeli occupation than Gorenberg, adopts the same fundamental thesis: that there was no "master plan" guiding the settlement project in its early years Rather, "the colonization of the mountain district of the West Bank …

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TL;DR: Shlomo Sand, translated by Yael Lotan, London and New York, Verso, 2009, xi +332 pp., £18.99 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 84467 422 0 /£9.99 as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Shlomo Sand, translated by Yael Lotan, London and New York, Verso, 2009, xi +332 pp., £18.99 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 84467 422 0 /£9.99 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 84467 623 1 Tony Judt called The Inven...

71 citations